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nirix51. Magua is the best villain
Magua is definitely the most bad-assed villain of the two movies. Saruman is creepy in an old, fanatical man type of way, and true, his command over vast armies of Uruk-hai is kind of worrying at times. Sauron is probably the least threatening villain ever (armies of orcs headed this way nonwithstanding) at least, in disembodied eye form. But Magua, man, if he had been fighting for the bad guys in LOTR Frodo and Sam wouldn’t have a chance. Oh, man, anyone who pisses off Magua is so incredibly fucked. He’s also an interesting, dynamic, physically dangerous character- threatening from far away and up close. Magua is the guy you love to hate. Saurman is the guy you call the cops on when he comes within ten feet of a playground. Yep.
2. Cora is way more kickass than Arwen.
In comparing these two movies, I find that Cora is kind of like Luthien to Arwen: meaning, Cora is like Arwen, times about ten thousand. Even comparing LOTR to the Silmarillion, you find that Arwen and Luthien are similar to each other, but Luthien seems more concentrated. If their places were reversed, Luthien would have followed Aragorn on his quest, instead of chilling at home embroidering a standard. Likewise, Cora follows Hawkeye into the action, insisting on pushing on to her father even when she had a shot at turning back. She also isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty working in the surgery, or doing anything else that needs doing. If Arwen was about to be scalped, she probably would have cried or something. Not Cora. She waited for Hawkeye to kill the scalper guy and then picked up the gun and started shooting people. Maybe Cora is more like Eowyn (sans spectacular love story) except I don’t know how well Eowyn would manage, having to take care of a fragile, suicidal little sister on top of everything else.
3. The love story is about a thousand times better than LOTR’s
Okay, I know you have the whole Arwen-Aragorn-Eowyn triangle, but come on. Let’s just all be adults and admit that love triangles are pretty shitty when you’ve got hundreds of miles in between each party at any given time (except when Aragorn is with Eowyn some of the time.) In Last of the Mohicans, you’ve got Hawkeye-Cora-Duncan, which is a lot more dynamic because they’re all together to get at each other’s throats. (So cute! “You’re defending him because you’re INFATUATED WITH HIM!!!” hee hee *squee*) Besides which, the HCD triangle is all True Love, while in LOTR the AAE triangle is true love-true love-crush, and kind of falls flat in the end when Eowyn falls for Faramir, anyway. What the hell is the point in having a love triangle if no one in it sacrifices their life for the woman they love????? (And the two guys argue over who gets to die, since they each think that the girl is better off when she’s with the other?)
4. More shirtless men / Better kissing scenes
My first thought when Legolas rode onto the screen and got off that horse was, “Who is that, and when is he going to take his shirt off?” Needless to say, he never did. Nor did Aragorn. Or Faramir. Or Boromir. Or Merry. Or Eomer (dammit, dammit…) Frodo doesn’t count. Unless you’re a pervy hobbit fancier. But you get to see Hawkeye with his shirt off. You also get to see him make out with Cora behind that shed thing, which is a way better kissing scene than the horribly chaste kissing Aragorn and Arwen do.
Also, hello, the waterfall scene! As if anything, in any movie could top that. That is the best True Love type scene EVER, beating even the Princess Bride in my book. “Stay alive, no matter what occurs!” Gah. *swoons*
* “The Lord of the Rings” counting as one movie, not three; “Last of the Mohicans” and “The Lord of the Rings” compared in movie form, not book form.
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Date: 2004-04-27 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-04-28 10:27 am (UTC)felines are funny
Date: 2004-04-28 04:18 pm (UTC)Although you never fully replied I recall you gazing up onto the hills ,past the plastic bubble that houses the orangemen,with a dreamy far off look. It was then I knew that I would receive postcards from many far off places of the universe.I wonder if Saturn takes 2 or three stamps?
Re: felines are funny
Date: 2004-05-13 02:41 pm (UTC)mayhap, but where's the secret diaries
Date: 2004-05-09 07:58 pm (UTC)Re: mayhap, but where's the secret diaries
Date: 2004-05-13 02:38 pm (UTC)Hmm.... gives me ideas, yes, preciousssss....
*cuddles the LOTM DVD*